Rsync service on Win2k?

[John Morgan Salomon]

Hi all,

I'm trying to get rsync running on a Windows 2k box (my tape backup server) to remotely
back up stuff from a few unix boxes. Not my favored constellation, but there's not
much I can do about that.

I'm hoping someone could give me a quick tip or two on getting rsync working
as a Win2k service. I'm not real proficient with Win2k, so be gentle. The posts I could
find in the archive all seeem to have gotten past this basic problem!
I've installed the latest Cygwin, as well as the Cygwin rsync package.

cygrunsrv -I "rsyncd" -d "Rsync daemon" -p /usr/bin/rsync.exe -a "--config=/etc/rsyncd.conf --daemon"
installs the service; rsyncd.exe --config=/etc/rsyncd.conf --daemon runs it from a bash shell,
but I can't seem to start it either using cygrunsrv -S "rsyncd", or from the Services manager.

I've also tried with --no-detach and -e CYGWIN='binmode tty ntsec' on the cygrunsrv command line,
as described at http://acd.ucar.edu/~fredrick/win2k/rsync/

Lastly, I tried getting it running via srvany.exe (from the Win2k resource kit) and srvinstw, with
even less intelligible output.

Any help would be very much appreciated.

Cheers,

-John

cygrunsrv's error message:

$ cygrunsrv -S "RSYNC"
cygrunsrv: Error starting a service: QueryServiceStatus: Win32 error 1062:
The service has not been started.

Here's the Win2k event viewer log:

Event Type: Error
Event Source: RSYNC
Event Category: None
Event ID: 0
Date: 11/29/2002
Time: 5:15:26 PM
User: NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM
Computer: SISB0006PFS
Description:
The description for Event ID ( 0 ) in Source ( RSYNC ) cannot be found. The local computer may not have the necessary registry information or message DLL files to display messages from a remote computer. The following information is part of the event: RSYNC : Win32 Process Id = 0xA08 : Cygwin Process Id = 0xA08 : starting service `RSYNC' failed: execv: 255, error 255.


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